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Here is One I Know You Know

by Seja

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1.
All Your Sorries Always looking for distraction And I’m sending all my best I am tracing a reaction and I’m not one to forget Always wanting what I wanted and I’m sending all my love my numbers have been charted and I’m not one to be scared of You gotta be gentle to yourself and all your worries nobody needs to hear your shit and all your sorries you gotta gentle to yourself and all your worries nobody needs to hear your sorries Always finding complications and I’m sending my regards I’m avoiding all temptations even if I’ve fallen hard Always sounding for affection and I’m sending all my care You know I live for connection and I’ll miss you everywhere
2.
I’m A Revolver I’m making stacks to pass time to organise here what’s mine spent time thinking about you so far you are the wrong and the right no bother I’m a blur my heart’s a revolver and it always turns the same I feel the push and the shove self-generated chaos you’re every story i write you’re every note that transpires you’re every face that walks by there’s no telling of why now that the smoke has all cleared help me to get out of here it washed away a flood so far and after the sun appeared
3.
Es Passt 03:56
Es Passt Egal wo ich bin, du past dahin Auch wenn ich schweig, du weißt bescheid ich sehe was du siehst und was du liebst egal was du machst ich weiss es passt In diesem Augenblick unter den Sternen der nacht was anderes weis ich nicht es fur uns beide gedacht Es ist soweit unsere zeit Unsere welt die uns gefällt Wenn wir uns sehen mein herz bleibt stehen der tag soll so sein für dich allein
4.
Home 04:16
Home home – it’s always still inside and when I can’t abide it keeps me formed home - is where my love lies down and in its coldest hours it keeps me warm home - where my wisest plans fall into my hands I have it down home - I am unconfined I have my piece of mind away from crowds I know soon I’ll be with you with my eyes open wide I know soon I’ll be with you lead the way back inside home - its where the story starts it’s always in my heart that’s how it grows home - its where I kiss goodbye it’s where my worries lie but no one knows home - where the daylight comes and where the night times hums they juxtapose
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Luck Of Numbers we drank our reflections in the glasses we were holding we emptied a few portions to minimise distortion we dream another theory I can feel your feelings when our worries sing too loud, we’re quick to block the noises out we daydream the day away there always feels there’s more to say wait until tomorrow here is one I know you know I watch this one over I like the luck of numbers we keep both eyes open our hearts can’t be broken
7.
Minor Chords, Major Problems I check the clock and it’s a quarter past the hour it’s crazy what our minds endure When sixty seconds pass so slow i don’t know how I hold to what my will can cure Everything just feels the same is it real or is it fake? someone help me get outta this one nothing’s meant to feel like this I’m holding tight to all I miss someone help me get outta this one I check room corners every minute then again you clearly don’t want it enough I sink away the seconds till I don’t know when Ask them to give you the good stuff
8.
Nano 03:41
9.
Time To The Brim Another day out here a let the motor run I’m a knife and I’m a sword I’m a shotgun I got time to the brim I can waste it but my minds too dim and I hate it c’mon come closer now Dying to remember all the things that I forgot Flying synapses are they in my mind or not I got space to the brim I can waste it but this place is grim and I hate it Tell me am I fooling you or are you fooling me? The only thing i know is the earth beneath my feet I’m feeling more and more like a book nobody reads just a little stuck in the tangle of the weeds c’mon come closer now I pay attention to the things that matter oh yeah oh yeah I listen closely and I mind my manners oh yeah

about

The third album from Australian synthesizer songstress Seja is an ode to analogue and the beloved synthesizers she has spent the last 20 years in dedication to. Recorded expertly in her home studio, it is a dense collection of squelchy synths, drum machines and computer bongos overlaid with mellifluous vocals. Reflecting the broad influence of an artist deeply in love with her instrument and an expansive appreciation for the breadth of synthetic music history coupled with sparkling pop songwriting. Sometimes in juxtaposition to the luminous melodic vocals, the album’s production flows from swirling, celestial dreampop to pulsating psychedelic, krautrock funk, to dark 80’s inspired soundscapes, all transmitted through the prism of Seja’s personal, often humorous and ultimately delightful songcraft.

Here is One I Know You Know is permeated by an overarching warmth. To this end Seja says she aimed to use mostly hardware and very little software and embraced both working and wonky gear to make something unique and beautifully flawed. She recorded the album herself in her home studio obviously singing and playing various and numerous synths on each track as well as playing guitars, bass, omnichord, rhodes piano, drum machines, programming, sequencing.

Featuring Jen Boyce (Ball Park Music) - bass, Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint) - percussion, Fred Armisen (SNL, Portlandia) - octobans, Georgia Mooney (All Our Exes Live in Texas) - backing vocals, George Browning (Velociraptor) - drums and percussion, Nicole Perry -congas, Chris Farrer (the Quickening) - guitar solos, Conrad Greenleaf (Richard in Your Mind) - bass and Danny Widdicombe (the Wilson Pickers) - pedal steel. Hotmagnets - production assistant / noise merchant.

It takes a nimble and accomplished songwriter to span and weave together the range of genre and spectrum of sound tackled on this album. On Here Is One I Know You Know Seja has conjured up a world class synth pop feast for the senses.

credits

released August 4, 2023

All songs written and produced by Seja

Seja - vocals, synths, guitars, bass, omnichord, rhodes, drum machines
Hotmagnets - Production assist, noise merchant, computer bongos

Korg Ms-20,Korg Mini 700, Roland SH-7, Roland SH-101, Roland Juno-60, Roland Juno -106, Roland JX3P, Roland RS-9, Yamaha CS70M


Fred Armisen: Octobans - Change on the Horizon
Jen Boyce: Bass - All your Sorries, Es Passt
George Browning: Drums and Percussion - all
Conrad Greenleaf: Bass - Change on the Horizon
Chris Farrer: Guitar solo - All your Sorries, Minor Chords, Major Problems
Georgia Mooney: Backing vocals - Home
Stella Mozgawa: Percussion - Change on the Horizon
Nicole Perry: Congas - Luck of Numbers, Minor Chords, Major Problems
Danny Widdicombe: Pedal steel - Es Passt

Mixed by John Lee
Mastered by Ryan Dahle
Recorded at Greyhound Sound,
Congas and Rhodes recorded at Tone Pacer

Cover by Fraser Ahr+
Photography by Luke Henery

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